Messrs. Thomas Dunford and Frank Leighton have formed a co-partnership in the shipbuilding business and propose to operate at the yard where Mr. Dunford has been so long in business. The first job they will undertake will be the building of a fine large tug boat for Mr. George E. Brockway. They are busily engaged in getting out the timber now.
Port Huron Daily Times
Friday, August 15, 1873

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The new tug by Leighton and Dunford will be 132 feet over all, 100 feet keel, 23 feet beam. They plan to get her boilers and engines at Cleveland.
Port Huron Daily Times
Monday, August 18, 1873

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The keel of Mr. Brockway's tug is being laid today.
Port Huron Daily Times
Wednesday, August 27, 1873

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The frames of Brockway's tug, now being built at Leighton and Dunford's yard, are all up. She is built on what is known as the "concave bottom" principle, and when done will be a beauty.
Port Huron Daily Times
Tuesday, September 16, 1873

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LAUNCH. -- The tug built by the Messrs. Leighton and Dunford for Mr. G. E. Brockway, of this city, was launched at 1:20 P. M. today. She went off easily and swiftly, without the least straining in any way. The vessel has not yet been named. She is 125 feet hull, 138 feet over all, 12 feet hold and 23 feet beam. Her engine is to be in size 16-1/8 x 30" and she is to have two boilers 19 feet long and 6-1/2 feet shell.
Port Huron Daily Times
Tuesday, November 18, 1873

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Mr. George E. Brockway has named his new tug boat the CRUSADER. This will, the navigators of the Great Lakes over, while the CRUSADER floats, have before them the remembrance of the great temperance crusade that has swept over this country.
Port Huron Daily Times
Tuesday, March 24, 1874

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